Elisabeth Röhm
Encyclopedia
Elisabeth Röhm is a German-born American television actress. She is known for playing Assistant District Attorney Serena Southerlyn
in the American TV series Law & Order
, and as Detective Kate Lockley
in the TV series Angel
.
, West Germany, moving with her family to New York City before her first birthday. Her father, Eberhard Röhm, is a corporate lawyer and partner at Duane Morris
. Her mother, Lisa Loverde, was an American scriptwriter
who once wrote for the TV soap opera, Guiding Light
.
Röhm attended St. Andrew's-Sewanee School
, a small private boarding school
in Tennessee
, then graduated from Sarah Lawrence College
, where she studied writing and European History.
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Röhm received her first TV acting role in 1997, as Dorothy 'Dorf' Hayes in the American soap opera One Life to Live
. She had a starring role in the 1999 BBC Northern Ireland
mini-series
Eureka Street
, then portrayed recurring character Detective Kate Lockley
in the first two seasons (1999 to 2001) of the TV series Angel
. While appearing in Angel, Röhm also had a regular role in the only season (2000-01) of the Turner Network Television drama series Bull
.
Röhm portrayed regular character Assistant District Attorney Serena Southerlyn through four seasons (2001 - 2005) in the television series Law & Order
.
.
Röhm was engaged to director Austin Smithard in 2000. She has been in a relationship with entrepreneur Ron Anthony Wooster since 2005 and engaged since 2007. Röhm gave birth to their daughter, Easton August Anthony Wooster, on April 11, 2008.
Röhm has included a blog
on her personal website often writing about life with infant daughter Easton and fiancé Ron. On January 6, 2011, People Magazine added Röhm's blog to the Moms & Babies section of its online site celebritybabies.people.com.
, was nominated for their 2001 performance, and again for their 2003 performance, for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series.
Röhm was selected for Maxim
magazine's "Hot 100" list in 2002.
Serena Southerlyn
Serena Southerlyn is a fictional character on the long-running NBC drama series Law & Order.-Character overview:Southerlyn joined the District Attorney's office in 2001 as an ADA, replacing Abbie Carmichael...
in the American TV series Law & Order
Law & Order
Law & Order is an American police procedural and legal drama television series, created by Dick Wolf and part of the Law & Order franchise. It aired on NBC, and in syndication on various cable networks. Law & Order premiered on September 13, 1990, and completed its 20th and final season on May 24,...
, and as Detective Kate Lockley
Kate Lockley
Kate Lockley is a fictional character created by Joss Whedon for the television series Angel, portrayed by Elisabeth Röhm. Kate first appears in the episode "Lonely Hearts." She is a young, skeptical detective for the Los Angeles Police Department....
in the TV series Angel
Angel (TV series)
Angel is an American television series, a spin-off of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The series was created by Buffys creator, Joss Whedon, in collaboration with David Greenwalt, and first aired on October 5, 1999...
.
Early life
Röhm was born in DüsseldorfDüsseldorf
Düsseldorf is the capital city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and centre of the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region.Düsseldorf is an important international business and financial centre and renowned for its fashion and trade fairs. Located centrally within the European Megalopolis, the...
, West Germany, moving with her family to New York City before her first birthday. Her father, Eberhard Röhm, is a corporate lawyer and partner at Duane Morris
Duane Morris
Duane Morris LLP is a law firm headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1904 as Duane, Morris, Heckscher & Roberts, the firm has 24 offices in the United States, London, Singapore and Vietnam. In addition to legal services, Duane Morris has independent affiliates employing...
. Her mother, Lisa Loverde, was an American scriptwriter
Screenwriter
Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...
who once wrote for the TV soap opera, Guiding Light
Guiding Light
Guiding Light is an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest running drama in television and radio history, running from 1937 until 2009...
.
Röhm attended St. Andrew's-Sewanee School
St. Andrew's-Sewanee School
St. Andrew’s-Sewanee School is a private, coeducational, Episcopal, boarding and day college preparatory school serving 260 students in grades six through twelve. It is located in Sewanee, Tennessee on the Cumberland Plateau between Nashville and Chattanooga and adjacent to the University of the...
, a small private boarding school
Boarding school
A boarding school is a school where some or all pupils study and live during the school year with their fellow students and possibly teachers and/or administrators. The word 'boarding' is used in the sense of "bed and board," i.e., lodging and meals...
in Tennessee
Tennessee
Tennessee is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States. It has a population of 6,346,105, making it the nation's 17th-largest state by population, and covers , making it the 36th-largest by total land area...
, then graduated from Sarah Lawrence College
Sarah Lawrence College
Sarah Lawrence College is a private liberal arts college in the United States, and a leader in progressive education since its founding in 1926. Located just 30 minutes north of Midtown Manhattan in southern Westchester County, New York, in the city of Yonkers, this coeducational college offers...
, where she studied writing and European History.
Career
One Life to Live
One Life to Live is an American soap opera which debuted on July 15, 1968 and has been broadcast on the ABC television network. Created by Agnes Nixon, the series was the first daytime drama to primarily feature racially and socioeconomically diverse characters and consistently emphasize social...
. She had a starring role in the 1999 BBC Northern Ireland
BBC Northern Ireland
BBC Northern Ireland is the main public service broadcaster in Northern Ireland.The organisation is one of the three national regions of the BBC, together with BBC Scotland and BBC Wales. Based at Broadcasting House, Belfast, it provides television, radio, online and interactive television content...
mini-series
Miniseries
A miniseries , in a serial storytelling medium, is a television show production which tells a story in a limited number of episodes. The exact number is open to interpretation; however, they are usually limited to fewer than a whole season. The term "miniseries" is generally a North American term...
Eureka Street
Eureka Street (TV series)
Eureka Street is a BBC Northern Ireland 1999 adaptation to mini-series of Robert McLiam Wilson's 1996 novel of the same name.Set in Belfast in the six months before and after the 1994 ceasefire, it commences with an anonymous hand typing the words, "All stories are love stories." The novel opens...
, then portrayed recurring character Detective Kate Lockley
Kate Lockley
Kate Lockley is a fictional character created by Joss Whedon for the television series Angel, portrayed by Elisabeth Röhm. Kate first appears in the episode "Lonely Hearts." She is a young, skeptical detective for the Los Angeles Police Department....
in the first two seasons (1999 to 2001) of the TV series Angel
Angel (TV series)
Angel is an American television series, a spin-off of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The series was created by Buffys creator, Joss Whedon, in collaboration with David Greenwalt, and first aired on October 5, 1999...
. While appearing in Angel, Röhm also had a regular role in the only season (2000-01) of the Turner Network Television drama series Bull
Bull (TV Series)
Bull is a short-lived American drama series created by Michael S. Chernuchin, who had worked on Law & Order and Brooklyn South in 2000. It was TNT's first original series, and was cancelled in the middle of Season 1...
.
Röhm portrayed regular character Assistant District Attorney Serena Southerlyn through four seasons (2001 - 2005) in the television series Law & Order
Law & Order
Law & Order is an American police procedural and legal drama television series, created by Dick Wolf and part of the Law & Order franchise. It aired on NBC, and in syndication on various cable networks. Law & Order premiered on September 13, 1990, and completed its 20th and final season on May 24,...
.
Personal life
Röhm was long an avid equestrian, but gave up horseback riding after a 2005 accident that she spoke about in a 2011 episode of the Biography Channel series Celebrity Close CallsCelebrity Close Calls
Celebrity Close Calls is a television series on BIO, a reality show that interviews various celebrities who have experience life-or-death situations.-Season 1:*1. Ice T, Cheryl Tiegs, Ed Begley, Jr. and Yancy Butler - June 18, 2011...
.
Röhm was engaged to director Austin Smithard in 2000. She has been in a relationship with entrepreneur Ron Anthony Wooster since 2005 and engaged since 2007. Röhm gave birth to their daughter, Easton August Anthony Wooster, on April 11, 2008.
Röhm has included a blog
Blog
A blog is a type of website or part of a website supposed to be updated with new content from time to time. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in...
on her personal website often writing about life with infant daughter Easton and fiancé Ron. On January 6, 2011, People Magazine added Röhm's blog to the Moms & Babies section of its online site celebritybabies.people.com.
Awards and nominations
Röhm, as part of the cast of the TV series Law & OrderLaw & Order
Law & Order is an American police procedural and legal drama television series, created by Dick Wolf and part of the Law & Order franchise. It aired on NBC, and in syndication on various cable networks. Law & Order premiered on September 13, 1990, and completed its 20th and final season on May 24,...
, was nominated for their 2001 performance, and again for their 2003 performance, for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series.
Röhm was selected for Maxim
Maxim (magazine)
Maxim is an international men's magazine based in the United Kingdom and known for its pictorials featuring popular actresses, singers, and female models, sometimes pictured dressed, often pictured scantily dressed but not fully nude....
magazine's "Hot 100" list in 2002.
Filmography
| title | released | role | notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deconstructing Harry Deconstructing Harry Deconstructing Harry is a black comedy film by Woody Allen released in 1997. This film tells the story of a successful writer called Harry Block, played by Allen himself, who draws inspiration from people he knows in real-life, and from events that happened to him, sometimes causing these people to... |
1997 | uncredited | |
| One Life to Live One Life to Live One Life to Live is an American soap opera which debuted on July 15, 1968 and has been broadcast on the ABC television network. Created by Agnes Nixon, the series was the first daytime drama to primarily feature racially and socioeconomically diverse characters and consistently emphasize social... |
1997–1998 | Dorothy Hayes | TV series |
| The Invisible Man | 1998 | TV movie | |
| Fantasy Island | 1998 | Beautiful Cindy | TV series |
| Puppet, Love and Mertz | 1999 | Love | short film |
| The '60s | 1999 | Amanda Stone | TV movie |
| Turks | 1999 | Marla | TV series |
| Eureka Street Eureka Street (TV series) Eureka Street is a BBC Northern Ireland 1999 adaptation to mini-series of Robert McLiam Wilson's 1996 novel of the same name.Set in Belfast in the six months before and after the 1994 ceasefire, it commences with an anonymous hand typing the words, "All stories are love stories." The novel opens... |
1999 | Max | TV mini-series |
| Angel Angel (TV series) Angel is an American television series, a spin-off of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The series was created by Buffys creator, Joss Whedon, in collaboration with David Greenwalt, and first aired on October 5, 1999... |
1999–2001 | Kate Lockley Kate Lockley Kate Lockley is a fictional character created by Joss Whedon for the television series Angel, portrayed by Elisabeth Röhm. Kate first appears in the episode "Lonely Hearts." She is a young, skeptical detective for the Los Angeles Police Department.... |
15 episodes |
| Bull Bull (TV Series) Bull is a short-lived American drama series created by Michael S. Chernuchin, who had worked on Law & Order and Brooklyn South in 2000. It was TNT's first original series, and was cancelled in the middle of Season 1... |
2000–2001 | Alison Jeffers | 20 episodes |
| Law & Order Law & Order Law & Order is an American police procedural and legal drama television series, created by Dick Wolf and part of the Law & Order franchise. It aired on NBC, and in syndication on various cable networks. Law & Order premiered on September 13, 1990, and completed its 20th and final season on May 24,... |
2001–2005 | ADA Serena Southerlyn Serena Southerlyn Serena Southerlyn is a fictional character on the long-running NBC drama series Law & Order.-Character overview:Southerlyn joined the District Attorney's office in 2001 as an ADA, replacing Abbie Carmichael... |
85 episodes, 2 SAG nominations |
| Law & Order: Dead on the Money Law & Order: Dead on the Money Law & Order: Dead on the Money is the first in a series of computer games based on the television series Law & Order by Legacy Interactive. The game was first published in September 2002.... |
2002 | ADA Serena Southerlyn (voice) | video game |
| Law & Order: Double or Nothing Law & Order: Double or Nothing Law & Order: Double or Nothing is a computer game released in 2003. The game is based on the popular US television series, Law & Order. It's the second Law & Order game after Law & Order: Dead on the Money.- Controversy :... |
2003 | ADA Serena Southerlyn (voice) | video game |
| Push | 2004 | Samantha | short film |
| Law & Order: Justice is Served | 2004 | ADA Serena Southerlyn (voice) | video game |
| Briar & Graves | 2005 | Dr. Laurie Graves | TV movie |
| Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous is a 2005 comedy film directed by John Pasquin, starring Sandra Bullock and Regina King. It is a sequel to the 2000 film Miss Congeniality.... |
2005 | Agent Janet McKaren | |
| FBI: Negotiator | 2005 | Laura Martin | TV movie |
| Amber's Story | 2006 | Donna Whitson | TV movie |
| Ghost Image | 2007 | Jennifer | |
| Masters of Science Fiction Masters of Science Fiction Masters of Science Fiction is an American television anthology series by the same creators as Masters of Horror. The show debuted on ABC on August 4, 2007 at 10PM for a run of four episodes... |
2007 | Lt. Granger | TV series |
| Big Shots Big Shots (TV series) Big Shots is an American television drama created and executive produced by Jon Harmon Feldman. The pilot was directed by Charles McDougall.-History:... |
2007 | Alex Mason | 3 episode |
| The Kreutzer Sonata The Kreutzer Sonata (2008 film) The Kreutzer Sonata is a 2008 film directed by Bernard Rose based on an eponymous novella by Leo Tolstoy.It is Rose's second collaboration with Danny Huston and his third adaptation of a work by Leo Tolstoy, following 1997's Anna Karenina and 2003's Ivans XTC."The Kreutzer Sonata" is the name... |
2008 | Abigail | |
| San Saba San Saba (film) The film, San Saba, stars Angus Macfadyen, Vivica A. Fox and Elizabeth Rohm. It is a film noir detective thriller and was directed by Mike Greene. The Production Designer was Brian Fowler. The film was produced in conjunction with AmberGreen Entertainment and Rigel Entertainment... |
2008 | Leigh | |
| The Mentalist The Mentalist The Mentalist is an American police procedural television series which debuted on September 23, 2008, on CBS. The show was created by Bruno Heller, who is also the show's executive producer... |
2008 | Sophie Miller | TV series |
| Desperate Escape | 2009 | Brooke Harris | TV movie |
| The Whole Truth | 2009 | Angela Masters | |
| Crimes of the Past | 2009 | Josephine Sparrow | |
| 90210 90210 (TV series) 90210 is an American teen drama television series developed by Rob Thomas, Jeff Judah and Gabe Sachs, and the fourth series in the Beverly Hills, 90210 franchise created by Darren Star. 90210 is the first series produced by CBS Productions under the company's re-launch, but is now produced by CBS... |
2009 | Bitsy Epstein | TV series |
| Heroes Heroes (TV series) Heroes is an American science fiction television drama series created by Tim Kring that appeared on NBC for four seasons from September 25, 2006 through February 8, 2010. The series tells the stories of ordinary people who discover superhuman abilities, and how these abilities take effect in the... |
2009-2010 | Lauren Gilmore | 8 episodes |
| Aftermath | 2010 | Rebecca Fiorini | |
| Desperate Escape | 2009 | Brooke Harris | TV movie |
| Chlorine | 2011 | Katherine | |
| Minkow | 2011 | Lisa Minkow | |
| A Christmas Kiss | Priscilla Hall | completed | |
| Transit | Robyn | post-production | |
| Abduction Abduction (2011 film) Abduction is an American action thriller film, directed by John Singleton, starring Taylor Lautner, Lily Collins, Sigourney Weaver, Maria Bello, Jason Isaacs, Michael Nyqvist, and Alfred Molina. The film is about a teenager who finds out that his parents are not really his when he sees his baby... |
2011 | Lorna Price | |
| Darkroom | Rachel | filming | |
| Officer Down | Alexandra Callahan | filming | |
| Bluegrass Run | Kate Holton | pre-production | |
| Sara's Cell | Sara | pre-production |